The Readers’ Editor is an initiative by The Print to be accessible and responsive to its readers. Each month, Shailaja Bajpai, as Readers’ Editor, highlights readers’ views on ThePrint’s content and writes about issues that confront journalism in a dense and highly contested media environment.
The difficulty faced by editors and reporters was simple in its complexity — ignorance. How do you convey the intricacies of Manipur's historical Kuki-Meitei enmity that suddenly turned violent?
These graphics artists at ThePrint illustrate stories; but their work also conveys mood and shades of meaning, a text or a photograph can’t always quite grasp.
From Punjab’s unemployable youth and Kalakshetra students’ fight against sexual harassment to Gujarat’s child nuns from Jain community, Ground Reports give you a 360-degree perspective.
'Gen-Z would rather watch or listen, that’s the reality,' observes ThePrint. Recognition of this shift to audio-visuals is why the team is ramping up its video section.
I receive frequent emails accusing ThePrint of 'anti-Hindu bias' or urging us to write more about 'the Nazi politics of Hindutva'. Sometimes, readers generously concede and correct themselves.
Everyone who went to the field admitted that though the experience was harrowing, they had become better journalists, perhaps even better people because of it.
In this age of fast and loose communication, the timeless principles of journalism need to be reinforced. And, it’s the Desk’s job to press ‘pause’ and reflect.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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